KickStarter.com Rejects Indie Doc. Humanizing Adult Entertainment

Chatsworth, Calif. – The filmmakers behind Staying Power: The Business and Value of the Adult Entertainment Industry, were recently notified their documentary would not be featured on KickStarter.com. The popular funding platform is a vehicle for emerging artists to finance projects from music to fashion to films. An independent documentary promoting healthy sexual expression and humanizing the adult entertainment industry, Staying Power was rejected from joining the KickStarter.com community.

Staying Power: The Business and Value of the Adult Entertainment Industry peels back the curtain to reveal the reality and humanity of those involved in the adult industry, while also demonstrating how society’s ideologies are reflected in porn, as it weaves itself into the fabric of modern culture. For more information, visit www.StayingPowerMovie.com.

Visitors to KickStarter.com are able to view thousands of projects in various states of production and opt to donate money to support the completion. KickStarter.com does have a list of prohibited items, including pornographic material. While Staying Power deals with pornography as a subject matter, it is a non-pornographic feature film intended to educate audiences.

After submitting Staying Power to KickStarter.com, Brandon Longwood received the following reply in an email:

Thank you for taking the time to submit your project. Unfortunately, this isn’t the right fit for Kickstarter. We receive many projects daily and review them all with great care and appreciation. We have determined that your project does not meet the Kickstarter Guidelines (http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines).

“I have all the respect in the world for KickStarter.com,” says Brandon Longwood. “It was disappointing to find out Staying Power will not be one of the site’s featured projects. I truly hope the decision was uninfluenced by the very biases and stigmas surrounding sex and pornography examined in ‘Staying Power.’ Perhaps our documentary was too hot for KickStarter.com, but we have an important story to tell, and will find other ways to do so.”

With KickStarter.com closing its doors to Staying Power, Longwood and his production team will turn to an alternate fundraising site named IndieGoGo.com. To help fund Staying Power through IndieGoGo.com, visit http://www.indiegogo.com/stayingpower.